Paris Men's Shows Spring 2012 Lanvin

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This season, Kris Van Assche showed his Spring 2012 men's collection in, of all places, the Paris Salvation Army's Palais de la Femme, an early-20th century building with the calm but slightly-intimidating aura of an all-girls' boarding school. The invitation also invoked...

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Bernhard Willhelm always puts on a show, in every sense of the word, and this season was no exception. As guests filed into the Mercedes-Benz dealership on the Champs-Éysées, rumor was rife that the défilé would include male porn star François Sagat, and a female body...

show's end. He's perhaps better-known in Europe than he is in America, although his collaborations with other brands (such as Y-3 with Adidas) give him access to younger markets than his signature label provides.
One of Yamamoto's models on the street, after the show
All the world's a...

We'd heard good things about the men's collection, which is only one season old, and we made it a point during this men's fashion week to attend Gustavo's intimate show.
This wasn't an ordinary fashion show. The audience was very small; there were only three models showing a capsule...

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Damir Doma has a world of influence behind him–he was born in Croatia, raised in Germany, worked in Belgium and moved to Paris–and it shows up in collections that offer something beyond conventional menswear. And while other designers flirt this season with images of men in...

J isn't afraid to make big fashion statements, and his Spring 2012 men's collection, titled Deviated, took menswear to some of its outer limits. All of the super-skinny models (a trend seen on many of the runways this season) wore cheekbone-sculpting makeup and heavy black-capped wigs.
The...

For years, fashionable men have sworn by an aggressively skinny silhouette, but Spring 2012 collections are pushing for a change. Those most likely to succeed are the ones that keep the overall line slim, but pump up the volume. At Issey Miyake, jackets were trim but not body-hugging–and...

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Despite all the turmoil chezJohn Galliano, the men's show still went on as planned, overseen by longtime member of the design team (newly-annointed creative director), Bill Gaytten. Against a pinball wizard's spiraling backdrop and a stereophonic soundtrack mashing up...

They also had a charm that menswear sometimes lacks–not to mention a sense of humor!
The colorful, and striking, finale
Models Jeremy Biscarro, left, and Dorian Jespers backstage after the show
Lanvin's creative director, Alber Elbaz, in a crowd of well-wishers
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This season's Forbidden Fantasy during Paris Men's Week was no exception: its invitation said, There are some things you can't tell anyone about...not even your psychiatrist. But who needs a shrink when you've got a dance floor?
The party's new venue, Le Trianon (in the 18th...